Hello! I've just been informed that "legacy authentication" is going to be disabled at the University of Toronto for my email account. Well, I suspected something like this was in the works when they adopted MS Outlook 365+ as the mail server, but it still isn't welcome. Up to now, I've been able to use mutt and getmail for all my needs; I run a daemon that picks up (and then deletes) email from a variety of servers (University of Toronto, GMail, and so on) onto a single computer. There I apply all the filters, spam protection, sorting into various inboxes, and so on. To read email I just ssh in from any computer anywhere and run mutt. All configurable with nice text-based scripts. The email files are automatically backed up and sychronized to other computers, too. When I'm out of town I have the mail be downloaded/deleteed manually, and I have full fallover capability, so if one machine is offline I can switch to another without any hiccups. But it looks like that is all going away, since Microsoft only supports what they call "modern" email clients, and on Linux only Thunderbird. I could switch. But then rather than the fetch-and-store model, which has worked fine over the years, I would either have to change to a view-in-a- browser model (and so have to be running a GUI locally and store all my email somewhere else out of my control), or chuck my university email account and set up something else. At the moment I'm really inclined to do the latter. I'll just set up some way of forwarding all my email to some text-based *NIX server somewhere that is happy to let me run scripts to deal with email. But maybe I'm not being fair to the former alternative. I have *no* experience with any of the "modern" email clients, and have been stubbornly clinging to the plain ASCII text as how email should work. Maybe there are perfectly reasonable email clients these days with powers I know nothing of. (I am currently teaching a few courses at UCLA and was forced to use their webmail system, run by Google, and I have to say I despise it: graphical for no good reason, with limited search/sort capabilities, threading of old messages not clearly visible, and so on.) Any advice, suggestions, hints? War stories? Ways to thwart the powers that be? Thanks in advance. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42